Question

I’m trying to get the value of href from an anchor. The code looks like this


var html = "<a href='http://path/to/file.pdf'>File</a&gt;";
alert(jQuery("a",html).attr("href"));


The only output I get is ‘undefined’.
I’m want to get “http://path/to/file.pdf“.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Try:

jQuery(html).attr('href');

Or if the <a> tag is deeper in the html than your example:

jQuery(html).find('a').attr('href');

The jQuery() function will convert HTML strings into DOM objects, and return a jQuery object containing them for you.